Defendant in terrorism case was tortured, lawyer says

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ap-il-hamastrial,1,3631152.story?coll=chi-news-hed

CHICAGO -- A soft-spoken Chicago-area grocer was forced to strip and wear a foul-smelling hood, deprived of sleep and threatened with death by Israeli agents before he finally broke down and admitted to financing terrorist activity, his attorney told a federal jury Thursday.

"You don't have to accept a case based on torture," defense attorney Michael E. Deutsch told jurors at the opening of the racketeering trial of grocer Muhammad Salah and university professor Abdelhaleem Ashqar. snip

She also said that former New York Times reporter Judith Miller would testify that she witnessed part of the interrogation of Salah and saw no torture or mistreatment. snip

But Deutsch said Miller had been duped into believing that Salah had not been tortured. He said that what the former reporter saw was a man who had been broken by days of cruel treatment and would do anything his interrogators asked him to do.

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1. So why are they interrogating people...

with a reporter present, but not an attorney?

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2. Miller bought special

favors with her propoganda journalism.

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4. Hear, Hear!

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3. I wonder if they'll torture

the freeper who set off the football stadium terror alarm

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5. nope

he has already been let go. White boy defense.